#Licinia

[mirandahamilton]

spartacus fashion: licinia's royal blue gown with gold details and lace trim in spartacus: blood and sand (s1e9)

[pleasingnight]

So like. Cic. Fam 7.23.4 introduces Licinia, sister of a Cassius; there is a house in Rome next to Cicero's that belongs to Cassius and is inhabited by Licinia; Licinia's husband Dexius is gone to Spain.

We are not sure which Cassius owns the house, but we do know from the same letter that he is friends with Nicias, whom Shackleton Bailey identifies as Curtius Nicias of Cos: grammarian, Epicurean, friend and client of Dolabella. Cassius may be our Gaius Cassius Longinus or his younger brother Lucius.

Licinia's husband Dexius is otherwise unattested. It seems an obscure marriage for a half-sister of Cassius, and it needs an explanation. Nevertheless, I am very tempted to bring up Decius, proscribed and killed in 43 bce according to Appian (App. BC 4.27). I suspect they might be the same person.

[Note. Shackleton Bailey: "Manutius proposed Crasso ( i.e. M. Licinius Crassus , son of the ' Triumvir ' ) <;in place of Cassio>". This particular Crassus does not make sense: even if the unattested daughter of the triumvir existed, how likely was she to marry a no-name Dexius while her brothers married the daughters of Metellus Scipio and Metellus Creticus? Furthermore, by Shackleton Bailey's dating of the letter to 46 bce, M. Licinius Crassus the younger is long dead. Some other Crassus might make sense, but I do not think we have a suitable one at the time.]

[gerceval]

mani qui force licinia à être son modèle pour s'entraîner / inventer des looks, licinia qui l'engueule parce que c'est jamais comme elle voulait et qu'elle a une soirée après, arthur qui lève les yeux au ciel comme jaja

[wine-porn]

Di Facto

Finally got into the middle child of a care package from Tuscany, and like the (new) winemaker said, it is truly cut from a bit different cloth than the newer release. This was made by his grandfather, who kept things at a much riper, more new-world-friendly super-Tuscan style. It lacks the vibrancy of the 2021, relying instead on classical–nyet: *safe*–nuances of heady black fruit and extended…

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Solidus with Licinia Eudoxia.

Period: Byzantine, Reign of Valentinian III

Date: A.D. 439

Mint: Ravenna

Medium: Gold

[sforzesco]

the way the valentinian and theodosian dynasties intermarried gives me a headache, so we'll just (hand waving) the marriage of licinia eudoxia and valentinian iii, also some normal ribbing between theodosius ii and valentinian iii

can you believe that we got another set of co-emperors with the theodosius-valentinian name set after the absolute disaster of the first pair? incredible!

[edwardscissorfeet]

pray for me my brother is looking at ucs and im not sure i want to go to america in june. pleaseeeee didnt he say he wanted to go to cambridge why are we looking at los angeles ☹️ i thought we were england 2025!!!!

[crankusmaximusmagnus]

[catoswound]

22, 27, and 28 for the ask game

I do not want to upset you xuan :]

22: top three favourite smells

lavender, warm laundry and bread!!!

27: pretend the institution of marriages isn't terrible and is good, actually. what are you wearing to your wedding?

ideally id wear some kind of qipao or fusion dress... ive looked at some but i haven't found any i really really like. itd be red/pink or white depending on who i was marrying <3

i hauv been. looking at them. like this design and a full non-bodycon skirt without a train... and if these were adapted to full sleeves

28: favourite flower?

i dont quite have one but i am partial to peonies :]

[ivoryandwines]

some more developing regional fashions for my OCs

[romangoldendreams]

Mars ready for war

[xxmarvelouslifexx]

My grandmother's birthday party. Trying to enjoy it but, the passage of time? My nieces and nephews, I just held them in my arms and now we're planning quinceañeras. Watching them enter the youth I swear me and my cousins barely left. This is probably the last good party we will be able to throw for my grandmother. No premature mourning, not yet. How am I 26 already? That used to seem like such a grown up number. It's not anymore.

[nobutakafairclough]

Episode 3 will return shortly!

I just finished up the photo shoot with @crankusmaximusmagnus . Arguably the most talked about episode of C & C "Roleplaying as the enemy" will be up on YouTube this weekend. Licinia and I chat about RPing as a Garlean, and all the symbolism and controversy that comes with it.

[autumnslance]

More Garlemald

Between finishing off PVP series goals and the new Large house for the FC, C'oretta's journey through Endwalker has been neglected.

We're still in Garlemald, with the first follow quest and meeting Licinia and the other refugees at Victor's Spoils, and the ceruleum tappers through that. The tragedy of the sisters is one the Eorzeans had not anticipated, and even their Garlean allies had not thought about: the ambivalence of the Imperials toward the Eorzean humanitarian effort, and being especially suspicious of magic users.

Which makes sense; the story of Garlemald's history is their lack of magic made them shunned and bullied, victims of others who could wield arcane power. Only the magitek revolution put them on even footing, and then the call to "take back" their ancestral homeland--800 years later--was a siren song to people in a harsh and frozen land. Is it any wonder "Solus's" propaganda caught on over the past 80 years?

Lucia, Maxima, the Ironworks, are all used now to magic and their friends in the Alliance. But the ones who stayed behind and only heard the horror stories, the false news...

We saw some of this in Stormblood, among those in Gyr Abania who believed the Imperial tales of "savage" Eorzeans who would bully and execute anyone in their way, especially the few decent Garlean officers, like Baut, who had stayed behind to continue protecting the villages they had grown genuinely fond of. If Gyr Abanians could believe such of their Eorzean neighbors after only 20 years under Imperial rule and abuse, how much more the Garleans separated from all else, in the capital and its surrounds?

Anyroad. In the debriefing, as we move on and learn of the cured Populares and their reports:

Lucia: It brings to mind events at the Ghimlyt Dark, does it not? The Emperor's sudden withdrawal from the front lines, specifically.

Lucia: Nerva and his father, Titus─Varis's then political rival─took advantage of rumors that Crown Prince Zenos had been possessed by a demon.

Alisaie: Elidibus. What better way to disparage your enemies than with the truth─or a close enough approximation.

Lucia: Indeed. But before their accusations could be substantiated, many of Titus's followers were silenced.

Lucia: While some were merely stripped of their status, others died under curious circumstances. One after another, suddenly and suspiciously.

Y'shtola: Again, Elidibus. Like as not, he had a hand in it. No evidence was found to implicate Varis, certainly.

Y'shtola: Again, Elidibus. Like as not, he had a hand in it. No evidence was found to implicate Varis, certainly.

Y'shtola: Nevertheless, Titus, Nerva, and the IIIrd Legion would have judged it a brazen attempt by the Emperor to rid himself

Y'shtola: And then, in the midst of this growing turmoil, Varis zos Galvus is murdered...

Y'shtola: And Garlemald's own prodigal son, Gaius van Baelsar, is named the murderer.

Y'shtola: Shortly thereafter, Nerva claims the right of succession, and in response, the Ist Legion claims the assassination was part of a coup d'état orchestrated by Titus and Nerva.

This clarifies that Prince Titus survived the initial conflict with Varis for the throne after Solus's "death." That Titus then supported his son as the possible new emperor after his own failed claim and Varis's demise at Zenos's hands.

I've long thought the coffin Varis spat on in the scenes in earlier patches was actually Solus's, not his uncle's. His anger at the lack of clarity in succession and the chaos it caused the empire was always there. What he learns of his grandfather later only makes matters worse.

Then we're piecing together the reports of the Populares and the refugee survivors, and the importance of the radio, with the ore resembles the talismans that protects the Contingent. Which strikes me as a very nice alternate solution than scraping Vrtra's hide of all his scales.

The briefing is cut short, however, by the arrival of and meeting with our future friend Jullus...

[trialsinthelateromanrepublic]

trial of Licinia

date: 113 BCE charge: quaestio extraordinaria [special inquiry] (on scandal of Vestal Virgins) defendant: Licinia advocate: L. Licinius Crassus cos. 95, cens. 92 (ORF 66.III) quaesitor [investigator]: L. Cassius Longinus Ravilla cos. 127,1 cens. 125 outcome: C

Cic. Brut. 160; N.D. 3.74; Liv. Per. 63; V. Max. 3.7.9, 6.8.1; Asc. 46C; Plut. Quaest. Rom. 83; Dio 26, fr. 87; Crawford, RRC no. 413, 428

[blackramhall]

"Acqua gassata e bibitone siciliano disseta e ossigena le cellule grigie" - Natale Lo Gatto

Il commissario Lo Gatto - Dino Risi (1986)

Blackram Hall: The guy practically lives in a Clue board